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The IlluMimiNati, 2011

The Illumiminati (let’s skip those distracting interior capital letters for now) were founded a hair over two years ago and are still going strong. Well, not exactly strong — sneakily, stealthily, subtly, sibilantly. In any case, we think their efforts are needed more than ever before, so we’re giving them a new thread in the here and now.

OKAY, WE’RE BACK

Thanks for your patience. Let us know if you notice anything unusual. (More unusual than usual around here, we mean.)

BLOG IS GOING OFFLINE FOR MAINTENANCE

Traffic is slow this afternoon (maybe the weather is as nice everywhere else as it is in Robertville), so we’re taking this opportunity to upgrade the blog’s software. Be prepared for disruptions beginning slightly before 2 p.m. blog time.

This Way to the Museion

We hope you enjoyed our Victorian MuseBlog spoof as much as we did. We’ll leave the Museion online, moderate it, and continue to add new goodies to it. MBers will no longer be automatically directed to it, so you’ll have to go there deliberately. You can find it at http://www.museblog.com/museion (or simply http://www.museblog.com ).

>> In any case, you certainly won’t want to miss Lady Coneyful’s Victorian Muses.

Yr. obd’t. svts.,

The G. & P. A.s

Chess Eterna-ment Rankings

Inspection of the chess games on the blog found only one game (Tesseract vs. bookgirl_me) still in progress*. To keep things tidy going into the new year, the Chess GAPA (Robert) has adjudicated and closed all other games** of standard chess and calculated new MuseBlog Chess Ratings on the basis of the results. Ratings for Capablanca and Turbo Chess are unaffected.

Here are the new ratings, as of January 4, 2011 (numbers in parentheses indicate number of games on which the rating is based).

*(Finished on January 8; ratings updated to reflect the result.)

Latest update: 24 September 2011.

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January 2011 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-03 Kirika’s birthday (1995)
01-03 SilverLeopard’s birthday (1998)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday (1993)
01-24 Alice turns 6,000 days old
01-25 Purple Panda turns 7,000 days old
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995 – rainbow)
01-30 The Skipper Nancy’s birthday (1992 – yellow or sea-green)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 3 and December 3, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

THREADS CLOSING EARLY TONIGHT

Your hard-partying Administrators will be offline for most of the evening, so the December Random Thread and “Welcome, Newcomers!” thread will be disappearing around 6:45 p.m., Museblog time. Replacements will appear a couple of minutes after midnight. Until then, we suppose you can use this announcement as a temporary random thread, in a pinch.

See you next year (and decade)!

Slow Moderation Ahead

Two GAPAs will be traveling on Monday (October 11), so delayed moderation is a distinct possibility for much of the day.

MuseBlog is sorry for the inconvenience, which is due to its moderators’ possessing physical bodies that need to be laboriously transported from place to place. In the future, the Administrators hope to exchange their cumbersome proton-and-neutron-based bodies for electron-based models that can be transported at near-instantaneous speeds via wireless networks. Until the upgrade is complete, similar slowdowns are bound to occur from time to time, and we entreat your understanding.